Scottish Executive

Alcohol Misuse

Ms Sandra White (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how the review to determine the scale of alcohol abuse and its consequences, as referred to in A Partnership for a Better Scotland , will differ from the research outlined in Alcohol Misuse in Scotland: Trends and Costs .

Mr Tom McCabe: The review will provide an update of the scale and extent of alcohol problems in Scotland, building on previous studies and incorporating information provided in plans submitted by local alcohol action teams.

Blind and Partially Sighted People

Robert Brown (Glasgow) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to introduce a statutory obligation on local authorities to provide talking books for blind and partially sighted people as part of the library service.

Mr Frank McAveety: The Executive has no such plans, since the provision of library services is a matter for local authorities. However, the Executive encourages local authorities to make appropriate arrangements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the new Local Government Act.

Blind and Partially Sighted People

Robert Brown (Glasgow) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will roll out across Scotland digital accessible information system CD technology for blind and partially sighted schoolchildren.

Euan Robson: The Scottish Executive provided initial funding to the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) to pilot a CD-ROM based system, known as DAISY, which makes use of new digital technology to provide blind and partially sighted pupils with alternative ways to access curricular materials.

  Following further, external, funding and development work, an evaluation report is now available. The Royal National Institute of the Blind’s wish to make the technology available throughout Scotland may have merit, but issues such as demand, costs and links to other groups, bodies and interested parties need careful consideration. Officials will meet representatives from RNIB in early August 2003 to discuss the evaluation, and possible outcomes of the project.

Crime

Robert Brown (Glasgow) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive how it will protect small local shops against crime.

Hugh Henry: Small retail businesses benefit indirectly from public space CCTV systems, funded by the Executive, many of which are deployed in the vicinity of local shops and neighbourhood shopping parades.

  One of the Partnership Agreement commitments is to expand CCTV, in shopping and other areas, supporting businesses and others to reduce crime. How this commitment will be delivered is currently under consideration.

  Under the Fund to Develop Post Offices in Deprived Urban Areas we have allocated funding of £2 million, over the two year period 2003-04 and 2004-05, to improve the viability of post offices which provide socially important services and which are located in Scotland's 20% most deprived urban areas. The fund allows for capital improvements to the retail side of the business and will include improvements to security to deter violent and other crime. Projects already approved include the installation of CCTV, burglar alarms and security shutters.

  The Scottish Business Crime Centre - a partnership involving the Executive, Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland and leading retail, business and commerce organisations - has for a number of years provided advice and guidance on crime reduction and prevention to all sizes of businesses in all parts of the community.

Health

Robert Brown (Glasgow) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements there are for testing children’s eyesight.

Mr Tom McCabe: Children under 16 are entitled to a free NHS sight test at either six monthly or yearly intervals, depending on the extent of their visual condition, or earlier where there is a clinical reason.

  There is no national programme of universal vision screening for children in the UK. Arrangements for routine testing of children's eyesight vary across Scotland. All NHS boards undertake routine vision screening of children in their pre-school period, or on entry to primary school. Details of arrangements in each NHS board area are not held centrally.

Health

Ms Sandra White (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether a new Scottish Health Survey has commenced and, if so, what progress has been made, and when the results will be made public.

Malcolm Chisholm: The 2003 Scottish Health Survey is currently underway. The fieldwork for the survey commenced in March 2003 and is due to be completed by March 2004. A preliminary report will be published in October 2004 with the final report being published in June 2005.

Housing

Robert Brown (Glasgow) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive how it is supporting the development of house owners’ associations.

Hugh Henry: This matter is being considered in light of the recommendations of the Housing Improvement Task Force and the consultation exercise on the draft Tenements (Scotland) Bill. The Executive will be considering the responses to the consultation paper and bringing forward proposals.

Housing

Robert Brown (Glasgow) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will include provision for supporting compulsory long term house maintenance funds for multiple ownership buildings in any tenement law reform bill.

Hugh Henry: A Consultation Paper on a draft Tenements (Scotland) Bill was published on 20 March and the consultation period concluded on 13 June. The paper sought views on the establishment of compulsory sinking funds. The Executive will be considering responses to the consultation paper and bringing forward proposals.

Housing

Robert Brown (Glasgow) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is considering imposing minimum standards on tenement owners and owners’ associations for basic maintenance tasks.

Hugh Henry: The draft Tenements (Scotland) Bill includes provisions that will help to maintain tenement buildings. The draft Bill introduces the tenement management scheme which should allow repairs to be carried out more easily and more often than under the present law. A definition of maintenance has also been provided in the draft Bill and the common law duty to maintain the support and shelter of the building has been restated in statutory form.

Joint Ministerial Committees

Richard Lochhead (North East Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive which joint ministerial committee meetings (JMC) it has attended; what the subject was of each such meeting; which minister attended, and which meetings it has not attended.

Ms Patricia Ferguson: The table provides a complete list of Scottish Executive Ministerial attendance at all JMC plenary and functional group meetings that have been convened since 7 October 1999:

  


Subject 
  

Date 
  

Venue 
  

Scottish Minister 
  



Plenary 
  

1 September 2000 
  

Edinburgh 
  

First Minister and Deputy First Minister 
  



Plenary 
  

30 October 2001 
  

Cardiff 
  

First Minister and Deputy First Minister 
  



Plenary 
  

22 October 2002 
  

London 
  

First Minister and Deputy First Minister 
  


 
 
 
 



Europe 
  

1 March 2001 
  

London 
  

Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs and 
  Deputy Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs 
  



Europe 
  

8 November 2001 
  

London 
  

No Scottish Minister was able to participate 
  



Europe 
  

7 March 2002 
  

London 
  

Deputy First Minister 
  



Europe 
  

11 June 2002 
  

London 
  

Deputy First Minister 
  



Europe 
  

27 September 2002 
  

London 
  

First Minister 
  



Europe 
  

22 October 2002 
  

London 
  

First Minister & Deputy First Minister 
  



Europe 
  

30 January 2003 
  

London 
  

Deputy Minister for Education and Young People 
  


 
 
 
 



Health 
  

7 April 2000 
  

Cardiff 
  

First Minister and Minister for Health and Community Care 
  



Health 
  

5 June 2000 
  

London 
  

Deputy First Minister and Minister for Health and Community 
  Care 
  



Health 
  

16 June 2000 
  

Glasgow 
  

Deputy First Minister and Minister for Health and Community 
  Care 
  



Health 
  

26 October 2000 
  

Belfast 
  

Minister for Health and Community Care 
  



Health 
  

22 October 2001 
  

London 
  

Minister for Health and Community Care 
  



  


Subject 
  

Date 
  

Venue 
  

Scottish Minister 
  



Knowledge Economy 
  

11 February 2000 
  

Edinburgh 
  

First Minister and Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong 
  Learning 
  



Knowledge Economy 
  

26 May 2000 
  

Edinburgh 
  

Deputy First Minister and Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong 
  Learning 
  


 
 
 
 



Poverty 
  

9 December 1999 
  

London 
  

Minister for Children and Education and Deputy Minister 
  for Communities 
  



Poverty 
  

26 May 2000 
  

Edinburgh 
  

Deputy First Minister and Minister for Communities 
  



Poverty 
  

18 September 2002 
  

London 
  

Minister for Finance and Public Services and Minister for 
  Social Justice

Livestock

Mr Mark Ruskell (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Green): To ask the Scottish Executive how many live (a) sheep and lambs and (b) pigs were exported in (i) 2000, (ii) 2001 and (iii) 2002 for (1) slaughter, (2) further fattening and (3) breeding, broken down by destination country.

Ross Finnie: Information on numbers of live sheep and pigs certified for export from the UK is given in the following tables:

  


2000 
  

Live Sheep 
  



Country of destination 
  

Breeding 
  

Fattening 
  

Slaughter 
  



Belgium 
  

178 
  

593 
  

0 
  



Denmark 
  

0 
  

0 
  

2,170 
  



France 
  

1,233 
  

199,327 
  

0 
  



Germany 
  

86 
  

30,003 
  

0 
  



Greece 
  

0 
  

4,350 
  

0 
  



Republic of Ireland 
  

255 
  

3 
  

120 
  



Italy 
  

0 
  

51,912 
  

0 
  



Netherlands 
  

39 
  

304,809 
  

0 
  



Portugal 
  

0 
  

3,800 
  

300 
  



Spain 
  

20 
  

32,769 
  

0 
  



Switzerland 
  

376 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Tristan da Cunha 
  

80 
  

0 
  

0 
  



United Arab Emirates 
  

15 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Total 
  

2,282 
  

627,566 
  

2,590 
  



  


2001 
  

Live Sheep 
  



Country of destination 
  

Breeding 
  

Fattening 
  

Slaughter 
  



France 
  

7 
  

51,300 
  

0 
  



Republic of Ireland 
  

0 
  

825 
  

120,208 
  



Belgium 
  

0 
  

3,850 
  

0 
  



Germany 
  

0 
  

10,132 
  

0 
  



Italy 
  

0 
  

1,679 
  

0 
  



Netherlands 
  

0 
  

18,344 
  

390 
  



Spain 
  

0 
  

770 
  

0 
  



Total 
  

7 
  

86,900 
  

120,598 
  



  


2002 
  

Live Sheep 
  



Country of destination 
  

Breeding 
  

Fattening 
  

Slaughter 
  



Austria 
  

22 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Belgium 
  

9 
  

0 
  

540 
  



France 
  

604 
  

20,917 
  

75,533 
  



Germany 
  

5 
  

0 
  

6,414 
  



Italy 
  

0 
  

0 
  

34,036 
  



Netherlands 
  

70 
  

0 
  

456 
  



Republic of Ireland 
  

78 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Total 
  

788 
  

20,917 
  

116,979 
  



  


2000 
  

Live Pigs 
  



Country of destination 
  

Breeding 
  

Fattening 
  

Slaughter 
  



Austria 
  

9 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Belgium 
  

13,454 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Canada 
  

42 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Cyprus 
  

336 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Czech Republic 
  

150 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Denmark 
  

121 
  

0 
  

0 
  



France 
  

2,458 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Germany 
  

40,158 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Greece 
  

716 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Republic of Ireland 
  

1,261 
  

200 
  

61,393 
  



Italy 
  

5,498 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Japan 
  

2,285 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Latvia 
  

1,736 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Malaysia 
  

731 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Mexico 
  

529 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Netherlands 
  

16,898 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Poland 
  

252 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Portugal 
  

404 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Romania 
  

418 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Slovakia 
  

41 
  

0 
  

0 
  



South Korea 
  

1,235 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Spain 
  

8,861 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Thailand 
  

1,200 
  

0 
  

0 
  



United States of America 
  

24 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo 
  

617 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Total 
  

99,434 
  

200 
  

61,393 
  



  


2001 
  

Live Pigs 
  



Country of destination 
  

Breeding 
  

Fattening 
  

Slaughter 
  



Republic of Ireland 
  

512 
  

0 
  

28,370 
  



Belgium 
  

1,629 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Germany 
  

7,357 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Greece 
  

9 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Italy 
  

410 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Netherlands 
  

2,254 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Spain 
  

542 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Thailand 
  

63 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Total 
  

12,776 
  

0 
  

28,370 
  



  


2002 
  

Live Pigs 
  



Country of destination 
  

Breeding 
  

Fattening 
  

Slaughter 
  



Belgium 
  

4,751 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Denmark 
  

47 
  

0 
  

0 
  



France 
  

47 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Germany 
  

4,314 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Greece 
  

171 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Italy 
  

1,490 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Netherlands 
  

9,429 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Spain 
  

1,834 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Philippines 
  

105 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Poland 
  

888 
  

0 
  

0 
  



Total 
  

23,076 
  

0 
  

0

National Health Service

Ms Sandra White (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive how many new consultants appointed in each NHS board area entered newly-created posts in each year since 1999.

Malcolm Chisholm: Information on numbers of consultants who entered newly created posts is not available centrally. The information provided in the table relates to the number of consultants in post by NHS board as at 30 September 1999 - 2002.

  


Health Board  


1999 
  

2000 
  

2001 
  

2002 
  



Scotland 
  

3,123 
  

3,182 
  

3,291 
  

3,397 
  



Argyll and Clyde 
  

191 
  

199 
  

206 
  

211 
  



Ayrshire and Arran 
  

151 
  

157 
  

164 
  

169 
  



Borders 
  

57 
  

57 
  

61 
  

58 
  



Dumfries and Galloway 
  

74 
  

77 
  

82 
  

85 
  



Fife 
  

144 
  

149 
  

152 
  

152 
  



Forth Valley 
  

126 
  

127 
  

134 
  

141 
  



Grampian 
  

324 
  

330 
  

348 
  

364 
  



Greater Glasgow 
  

815 
  

817 
  

846 
  

886 
  



Highland 
  

116 
  

122 
  

117 
  

127 
  



Lanarkshire 
  

234 
  

240 
  

247 
  

253 
  



Lothian 
  

560 
  

565 
  

586 
  

593 
  



Orkney 
  

4 
  

4 
  

3 
  

3 
  



Shetland 
  

8 
  

7 
  

7 
  

8 
  



Tayside 
  

323 
  

321 
  

324 
  

330 
  



Western Isles 
  

12 
  

12 
  

12 
  

12 
  



Golden Jubilee National Hospital 
  

0 
  

0 
  

0 
  

2 
  



Common Services Agency 
  

24 
  

30 
  

33 
  

35 
  



State Hospital Carstairs 
  

6 
  

7 
  

7 
  

7 
  



Special health boards 
  

5 
  

5 
  

6 
  

7

National Health Service

Ms Sandra White (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether the 600 additional consultants in the NHS, as referred to in A Partnership for a Better Scotland , will be appointed to newly-created posts.

Malcolm Chisholm: A Partnership for a Better Scotland : Partnership Agreement says:-

  We will aim to increase the number of consultants in the NHS by 600 by 2006 and continue to build on that increase thereafter.

  It is the responsibility of employers to determine how the 600 will be configured and how many of those will be to newly created posts. They will determine this through their workforce planning arrangements, which they will make in line with service need.

Organ Retention

Des McNulty (Clydebank and Milngavie) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive whether the practice of retaining organs from deceased children without the permission of their next of kin has ceased.

Malcolm Chisholm: There is general awareness across NHSScotland that past practice, under which organs were retained at post-mortem examinations without the knowledge or consent of the family, was unacceptable. Since early 2000, all trusts in Scotland have adapted their procedures to ensure that the form they use is explicit about the permissions being given, and that information about the implications of a hospital post-mortem examination is available to parents who wish it.

  MEL(2001)21 of April 2000 instructed trusts to ensure that relatives were fully and sensitively informed of the organisation’s policy on post-mortem examinations, including why the examination was thought necessary, how it would be carried out, whether organs would be retained and the options for their subsequent disposal.

  The interim report by the review group on retention of organs at post-mortem, published in February 2001, contained a clear recommendation that no hospital post-mortem examination should be undertaken without the agreement of relatives, and no organs should be retained without their specific consent. It also set out a code of practice designed to ensure that the lessons of the past were implemented. The Scottish Executive endorsed these recommendations.

  This approach is enshrined in the standards on the management of hospital post-mortem examinations, published in March 2003 by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland. These standards are mandatory across NHSScotland.

  The agreement of the relatives is not required where the Procurator Fiscal has instructed a post-mortem examination, but organs will only be retained in such cases where this is necessary to determine the cause of death and generally only until diagnosis is complete. The Procurator Fiscal will ensure that families are fully informed and disposal of the organ is effected in accordance with families’ wishes.

Organ Retention

Des McNulty (Clydebank and Milngavie) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) brains and (b) other organs were retained by hospitals in each of the last 12 months.

Malcolm Chisholm: The information requested is not available centrally on a monthly basis. The table gives data for the period 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003 and includes brains and other organs retained for diagnostic purposes following post-mortem examinations instructed by the Procurator Fiscal and carried out in a hospital setting.

  "Retention" has been taken to mean any case where the organs were not returned to the body immediately but were kept, with the agreement of the family, even for a short time, for purposes of diagnosis, or for other purposes such as medical education or research, and then disposed of in consultation with the family.

  


Trust 
  

Brains 
  

Other Organs 
  



Argyll and Clyde Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 
  

 0 
  

 0 
  



Ayrshire and Arran Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 
  

 6 
  

 3 
  



Dumfries and Galloway Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 
  

 0 
  

 0 
  



Fife Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 
  

 0 
  

 0 
  



Forth Valley Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 
  

 7 
  

 0 
  



Grampian University Hospitals NHS Trust 
  

 45 
  

 4 
  



Highland Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 
  

 0 
  

 0 
  



Lanarkshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 
  

 3 
  

 0 
  



Lothian University Hospitals NHS Trust 
  

 97 
  

 37* 
  



North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust 
  

 9 
  

 1 
  



South Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust, including 
  the Institute of Neurological Sciences 
  

 46 
  

 1 
  



Tayside University Hospitals NHS Trust 
  

 0 
  

 0 
  



West Lothian Healthcare NHS Trust 
  

 0 
  

 0 
  



Yorkhill NHS Trust 
  

 8 
  

 0 
  



  Note:

  *The other whole organs are mainly hearts. The number reflects the practice of retaining organs for a short period (between one and several weeks) as part of the active pathology teaching programme which is included in the curriculum of the University of Edinburgh Medical School. The consent of the relatives for the use of these organs in medical education was obtained in every case.

People with Disabilities

Robert Brown (Glasgow) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what improvements it will require local authorities to make in their libraries in the provision of preferred formats of books to comply with disability discrimination legislation.

Mr Frank McAveety: The provision of library services is a matter for local authorities. However, the Executive encourages local authorities to make appropriate arrangements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and the new Local Government Act.

People with Disabilities

Robert Brown (Glasgow) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will establish a national transcription centre to record key texts in audio or audio visual format to support the education of blind and partially sighted schoolchildren.

Euan Robson: I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-1405. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search .

Planning

Campbell Martin (West of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-1048 by Mrs Mary Mulligan on 30 June 2003, what redress a local community has if it feels that planning permission has been granted by a local authority for a wind farm development without local concerns having been fully addressed.

Mrs Mary Mulligan: If a local community feels that the action taken by a planning authority contravenes statutory procedures they may approach the monitoring officer of that authority. It is open to an individual to make a complaint to the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman where they feel they have suffered injustice or hardship as a result of maladministration or service failure on the part of a local authority. It is also open to the local community to seek a judicial review of a decision taken by a planning authority.

  Our White Paper, Your Place, Your Plan, published in March, contained measures to strengthen and enhance public involvement in the planning system. It and the Partnership Agreement gave a commitment to a public consultation on widening rights of appeal in the planning system.

  Although windfarm developments with a generation capacity of 50 MW or less come within the scope of the planning system, developments in excess of 50 MW require the consent of Scottish ministers in terms of section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989. There is no right to appeal a section 36 consent but it remains open to individuals to seek a judicial review of the decision making process.

Public Transport

Ms Sandra White (Glasgow) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it will introduce to enforce restrictions on smoking in public transport, as referred to in A Partnership for a Better Scotland .

Mr Tom McCabe: The Scottish Executive will consult with public transport operators later this year on a range of options to enforce smoking restrictions on public transport. It is not possible at this stage to detail what these measures may be.

Royal Mail

Bristow Muldoon (Livingston) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make representations to the Department of Trade and Industry, the Department for Transport, Network Rail and the Strategic Rail Authority to ensure that the Royal Mail allows third party parcel operators to use rail terminals if it proceeds with its proposals to withdraw its rail services for the distribution of mail.

Nicol Stephen: The use of rail terminals for third party parcel operators is a matter for the Royal Mail. As I stated in the Scottish Parliament chamber on 14 June 2003, I intend to make representations to the UK Government on the Royal Mail’s proposal to discontinue using rail for mail distribution in favour of road. I also intend to raise the issue of third party usage of Royal Mail terminals.

Scottish Executive Staff

Helen Eadie (Dunfermline East) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its staff, and staff of the former Scottish Office, worked on early education and childcare policy issues in (a) 1997, (b) 1999, (c) 2001, (d) 2002 and (e) 2003 to date.

Tavish Scott: Exact numbers of staff who have worked on early education and childcare policy issues are not available. It is, however, possible to provide the number of staff who have worked in the division of that name since its inception in 2000.

  The information is given in the table:

  Number of staff working in Early Education and Childcare Division as at 1 April

  


Year 
  

Number. of Staff 
  



2001 
  

17 
  



2002 
  

14 
  



2003 
  

12 
  



  Early Education and Childcare Division was formed in January 2000. Prior to that date, responsibility for this area of policy was dispersed among a number of policy areas, all having a number of other additional responsibilities. Therefore, precise staffing numbers for 1999 and 1997 are not available.

Tourism

Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what budget has been allocated to the Active Scotland campaign; what role area tourist boards will play in promoting the campaign; what VisitScotland promotional material and other resources are being used and how the Executive will measure the campaign’s cost effectiveness.

Mr Frank McAveety: Although this is an operational matter for VisitScotland, I understand that a budget of £100,000 has been assigned to the 100% Scottish Summer Campaign that includes the Active Scotland Campaign. The promotion and the effectiveness of the campaign are entirely a matter for VisitScotland.

Victim Support

John Scott (Ayr) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will increase funding to Victim Support Scotland to deal with any increase in the number of referrals to it by the police following the recent relaxation in data protection regulations.

Hugh Henry: I am delighted that more victims are being referred to Victim Support Scotland (VSS) now that the Data Protection issue has been resolved. I am also pleased that we have been able to build the capacity of local victim services by increasing their core funding by 27% since 1999-2000, including a 3.3% rise in 2003-04.

  Future decisions on funding will be informed by a strategic review of VSS, which was completed in March this year. Victim Support Scotland is currently taking forward the recommendations of that review in partnership with the Executive. This includes consideration of how local services are delivered and funded. As an initial response to the review, local victim services will benefit from an additional £25,000, which we have provided to fund a national volunteer recruitment campaign and increased training support.